Improvement in vapor-escape attachments for cooking apparatus



s. W. POLAND. Vapor Escape Attachment for Cooking Apparatus..

No. 201,943. Patented April 2,1878.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. POLAND, of Monson, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Vapor-Escape Attachment to Cooking Apparatus, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved vapor-escape attachment to cooking apparatus; and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, taken on line a; m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved. attachment for cooking apparatus of all kinds, by which the steam and odor arising from the meat, vegetables, &c., may be conducted oil from the room-in which they are cooked to the chimney, and thereby all parts of the house kept free from all obnoxious smells and vapors.

The attachment may be readily carried out of the way, and attached readily either to one, two, or more kettles or pots, according to the number of kettles on the stove.

The invention consists of jointed and adj ustable escape-pipes, which are connected by swinging horizontal portions to intermediate steam drums or boxes, and, finally, to an exitpipe of the smokepipe. The lower ends of the escape-pipes are readily adjusted by sliding tubes with handles to short center-tubes of the lids of the kettles or pots, and the entire attachment supported on a fixed drum of the stove-pipe, so that the escape-pipes may be (sfivung out of the way and conveniently han- In the drawing, A represents a range, stove, or other cooking apparatus, and B the stovepipe of the same, which is provided at suitable height above the range with an interior exit steam-pipe, G, that communicates with a rigid horizontal elbow, C, from which is suspended a steam drum or box, D. To thelower part of the box D, and connected thereto by a center-bolt, is applied a closed sleeve with horizontal pipe E, that extends, by a sliding and guided elbow-pipe, E, at the outer end down to the lid of the kettle near the stovepipe. The length of the vertical portion of elbow-pipe E is adjustable by a sliding pipe, E, at the lower end, that fits on a short centertube of the lid of the kettle, and is raised or lowered by a suitable handle, a. At the middle portion of the drum D is arranged a second sleeve-shaped tube, F, with fixed horizontal pipe F in which a horizontal tube, F, of a second steam drum or box, G, slides, the tube F being guided and supported on tube F by horizontal rod and guidestaple d. To the steam-drum G are applied, in similar manner as to the first box D, two or more swinging tubes, G, that radiate therefrom, and which are supported. thereon by a central fasteningbolt in analogous manner as in the first drum. From the longer or shorter swinging tubes Gr of the second drum G extend in downward direction the elbow-shaped pipes G that slide by their horizontal portions in the horizontal pipes G, and are guided thereon by guide-rod and staple in the same manner as the slidetube of the second drum in the horizontal supporting-pipe of the first drum. The lower ends of these sliding elbows G are also provided with short sliding tubes 6, that are raised or lowered by handles 6, so as to be readily seated on or removed from the center tubes on the lids of the kettle.

The number of conduit or escape tubes is in proportion to the size of the range or other cookin g apparatus, and to the number of cooking vessels used thereon, so that a sufficient number is provided to supply all the vessels used for cooking, and conduct thereby all the obnoxious vapors and smells into the chimney. without annoyance to the remaining part of the house.

Whenever any one of the kettles is desired to be removed or inspected, the short lower slide-tube is raised and the escape-tube swung out of the way, the same being instantly replaced when the cooking-vessel is put again in position on the range.

The drums have openings that register with the escape-pipes when they are in position on the kettles, but shut off the connection as soon as they are removed therefrom.

' By the conduit-pipes one or more kettles may be connected to the stove-pipe, as desired, as they are readily applied to, and, if desired, entirely shut off by, a damper, f, at the fixed The combination, with the lids of the cookin g-vessels, of horizontally and vertically adjustable escape-pipes, swinging on intermediate steam-drums connected to stove-pipe, the escape-pipes being supported so as to be readily adjusted to one or more cooking-vessels or swung out of the way, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL W. POLAND.

Witnesses:

H.-H. WEEDEN, S. S. TAFT. 

